Chair of solid state physics . ... Defects in crystals . ... Lectures program for the undergraduate students of the Faculty of general and applied physics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) . The defect-free and unlimited solid is though a useful ideal construction, but it is quite far from reality. ... At the beginning, the 0-dimensional defects like vacancies, interstitials, dislocation kinks and kinks of surface steps are discussed. ... Grain boundary dislocations. ...

... On 04jan01 through 08jan01 a number of calibrator sources were tracked using the sband narrow receiver at 2380 Mhz and the standard calibration pattern (4 cross scans at 45 degrees to one another). ... Figure 1 shows the point source gain in K/Jy versus azimuth angle. ... Figure 2 shows the same point source gain in K/Jy versus zenith angle with the bottom plot coming from the sep00 run. ... The ratio of the beam efficiency to the point source gain is independent of the source flux. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

Electron-Bombarded, Back-Illuminated CCD Sensors . For Low-Light-Level Imaging Applications . ... Damage to the gate structure oxide layers from keV level X-rays will likely result in increased dark current and decreased full-well capacity. ... Figure 14 shows the increase in dark current versus incident electron energies. ... The back-thinned CCD's 'lifetime' is defined, herein, to be a 50 electron per pixel increase in CCD dark current per 16.7 millisecond integration period. ...

... From the data taken during Cycle 1, surface brightness profiles have been obtained for 13 globular clusters in M31 (Fusi Pecci et al. 1993), leading also to the detection of a central cusp in a candidate post-core-collapse cluster (Bendinelli et al. ... Surface brightness profiles obtained with VISTA. ... PSF 512 512, data matrix smaller and smaller (256 256, 128 128, 64 64), sky = 0, RMG (Fig. 3b): the derived profiles remain unaffected a part from the reduction in radial extension. ...

... Погружения поверхностей в $R^3$ и основная проблема их классификации с точностью до регулярной гомотопии и кобордизма. ... A. Определение групп $Imm^o(n,1)$ и $Imm^{so}(n,1)$. ... Imm^{so}(0;1)$ степень отображения. ... B. Устойчивые отображения. Нормальная локальная форма устойчивых отображений. ... Пример вычисления алгебраического числа особенностей $I$-cтруктуры коразмерности 1 при регулярной гомотопии двух устойчивых погружений и гомотопии двух устойчивых отображений. ...

... Telescopes ћ Binoculars ћ Microscopes . Meade Ultra-High Transmission coatings (UHTC ) Group . ... Meade Standard Coatings: The optical surfaces of all Meade telescopes include high-grade optical coatings fully consistent in quality with the precision of the optical surfaces themselves. ... These specialized, and extremely advantageous, coatings are offered here as the Meade Ultra-High Transmission Coatings (UHTC) group, a coatings group available optionally on many Meade telescope models. ...

... Observing . ... Solar Observing . ... April 3 (SUN) - Solar Observing, Central Park , Manhattan . ... APRIL'S SKY . ... Lecture Series at the American Museum of Natural History The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the .. ... The€аAmateur Astronomers Association of New York€аwas organized in 1927 to promote the study of Astronomy, emphasizing its cultural and inspirational value. ...

Ice Volcanoes Reshape Europa's Chaotic Surface . Ice-spewing volcanoes and the grinding and tearing of tectonic plates have reshaped the chaotic surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa, images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveal. ... Although the images do not show currently active ice volcanoes or geysers, they do reveal flows of material on the surface that probably originated from them, said Galileo imaging team member Dr. Ronald Greeley of Arizona State University, Tempe. ... Europa . ...

... OOF . ... OOF Index . ... OOF software . ... Fits up to fifth order . ... These are experimental data currently being analysed, not final documentation of research. ... Only fitting for Zernike orders up to and including 3rd to concentrate on finding possible off-axis aberrations. ... The results below show that when fitting for all Zernikes up to and including fifth order, the output maps vary greatly between pixels. As above, but fitting up to fifth order Zernike polynomial. ...

Microsymposium 34, MS058, 2001 ANOMALIES OF THE MOON'S THERMAL EMISSION IN THE IR SPECTRAL RANGE (10.5 - 12.5 micron). ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, 119899, Russia, pugach@sai.msu.ru Summary: New satellite measurements of the lunar-surface radiation temperature were used to construct the spatial angular function of thermal radiation of the Moon in the infrared (10.5-12.5 micron) spectral range. ... These thermal anomalies are observed only in the limited range of phase angles. ...

... Contamination on optical surfaces degrades the throughput of an optical system. ... Contamination is particularly pernicious on the unprotected aluminum that is commonly used on the large first-surface mirrors of reflecting telescopes. ... During that period, the covers of their protective cases is opened whenever the 3.5-m telescope primary mirror cover is opened for nighttime observing. ... CO2 clean exposed mirrors in SS case. ... Light scattering measurements performed on cleaned mirrors. ...

... VOLUME**, **PUBLICATION YEAR** **EDITORS** Time-resolved spectral analysis of the pulsating helium star V652 Her C.S. Je ery, V.M.Woolf Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, N. Ireland D.L.Pollacco School of Physical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 9NN, N. Ireland Abstract. We present a summary of a new time-dependent spectro- scopic analysis of the pulsating helium star V652 Her. ... The rst direct evidence of a supersonic shock at minimum radius is also obtained. ...

... OF THE MISSION CONCEPT AT RSC ENERGIA . Year of the design . ... Use of electric propulsion for interplanetary transit powered by a 7 MW nuclear reactor; . ... Delivery to Martian surface of a group of vehicles to make up a self-propelled train . ... Switch to a stationary "headlight"-shaped lander with frontal heat shield . ... Replacement of nuclear power plant with a solar power plant based on a film-type photoelectric converter . ... Official WEB-site of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia . ...

... 2009: Europa Lander: Science Goals and Experiments Introduction Europa's complex surface is the consequence of physical processes in the ice shell and in the deep interior. ... Tidal deformation induces pressure changes and therefore may drive currents in the ocean. ... This allows for the determination of the ice shell thickness. cold brittle ice thin ice layer completely frozen ocean Europa's Response to Tidal Forcing h 2 Elastic response of the ice shell. ...

image collection >> biological phenomena >> increased productivity . Image asar-seawifs030904 . ... SeaWifs + Envisat ASAR . ... Portuguese coast . ... The transparency is made by overlaying a SeaWifs image on top of an Envisat ASAR image . It reveals both the sea surface signatures of oceanic internal waves, and the surface chlorophyll concentration distribution off Portugal's west coast. ... Image . surface geometry : ~100*96 km . image size: 680pxl*652pxl . ...

... Archives . ... They are quite useful by its contents (even pages of the lecture notes are properly flipped for you while the lecture is given). Increasing popularity of machine learning among astronomers will find more use of such lectures. If you have time to learn machine learning and other related subjects, please visit http://videolectures.net/ . ... Tags: data mining , Information , lecture , machine learning , on-line , optimization , Stat . ... Comment ( RSS ) | ... Chandra Blog . ...

... One Hundred Kilometer Terrain on Venus . ... The Pleiades Star Cluster . ... Shepard Flies Freedom 7 . ... Forty years ago today (May 5, 1961), at the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers "lit the candle" and sent Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. ... You may think it's impossible to see through the Sun, but maps of the Sun's far side are now made routinely by instruments on board the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. ... Planet Building in HD 100546 . ...

... Astronomers once thought Pluto's atmosphere would condense down to the surface as it moved away from the Sun. Can that still be true, and if so, is that causing the surface features we now see? ... This is almost certainly because the atmosphere which is nitrogen, like Earth s atmosphere is also frozen as ice on the surface. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

... January 10, 1999 . Venus' Once Molten Surface . ... JPL ), MIPL , Magellan Team , NASA . ... This computer reconstruction of the surface of Venus was created from data from the Magellan spacecraft . Magellan orbited Venus and used radar to map our neighboring planet's surface between 1990 and 1994. Magellan found many interesting surface features, including the large circular domes , typically 25-kilometers across, that are depicted above . ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...